Meg Whitman

Longtime chief executive of eBay and Hewlett Packard, Whitman held senior business leadership positions at some of the most prominent companies in American technology and media, including The Walt Disney Company and...

Marie desJardins

Researcher focused on understanding trust among agents in online communities, desJardins has led the Multi-Agent, Planning and Learning Lab (MAPLE) at UMBC, which focuses on developing A.I. solutions to real world problems....

Carol A. Jones

Responsible for delivering the first releases of WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Studio, Jones is recognized as a visionary and technical leader for WebSphere Portal, driving the initiative across IBM. She was...

Kathleen Booth (née Britten)

Credited with writing the first assembly language and the design of the assembler and autocode (ARC and APE(X)C) for the Birkbeck College computers, Booth made foundational contributions to computer programming. Born in...

Irene Greif

Inventor of the Version Manager — consistently designated by analysts as the most significant group-enabling feature in spreadsheets — Greif is an American computer scientist and a founder of the field of...

Dorothy Du Boisson

Operator of the prototype Colossus and the "Mark 2" Colossi at Bletchley Park, Du Boisson is recognized for her role in the wartime codebreaking effort. She joined the WRNS in 1943 and...

Michelle Simmons

Named Australian of the Year in January 2018 for her work and dedication to quantum information science, Simmons is an Australian quantum physicist recognized for her foundational contributions to the field of...

Gwendowlyn K Bell

Founding President and Co-founder of The Computer Museum and Co-founder of the Computer History Museum, Bell has also served as President of the ACM.

Sonja Bernhardt

Founder and Inaugural President of Women in Technology (WiT) in Queensland in 1997, Bernhardt was a prominent Australian figure in efforts to bring more women and girls into technology careers. She also...

Helen Greiner

Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for leadership in the design, development, and application of practical robots, Greiner is an American engineer and businesswoman best known as a co-founder...

Gladys West

Recognized for her contributions to mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth, West was an African American mathematician whose work on satellite geodesy models was later incorporated into the Global Positioning...

Li-Shiuan Peh

Developer and builder of self-regulating power-aware interconnection networks that trade off power and performance automatically, Peh is recognized for work that would reconcile the design goals of high-performance and low-power usage. Li-Shiuan Peh...

Maja Mataric

A founding pioneer of the field of socially assistive robotics, Matarić held the Chan Soon-Shiong Endowed Chair and served as Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, with...

Carla Gomes

Founding Director of the Institute for Computational Sustainability at Cornell University, Gomes was a Portuguese-American computer scientist noted for pioneering work in developing computational methods to address challenges in sustainability. Her research spanned...

Frances (Betty) Elizabeth Holberton

One of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, Holberton made foundational contributions to the history of computing. During World War II, while the men were fighting,...

Marsha J. Berger

Pioneer of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and Cartesian mesh finite difference methods for numerical PDEs, Berger's block-structured AMR approach, beginning with her thesis, is now considered one of the seminal ideas in...

Barbara Grant

Vice president and General Manager of the Data Storage Division of Removable Media Storage Solutions at IBM, Grant held that role as part of a 21-year career with the company spanning a...

Arlene Joy Harris

Pioneer of the first automated cellular service activation systems now used globally in retail locations to remotely and instantly activate cellular phones, Harris is also known as the "First Lady of Wireless"...

Mary Lou Soffa

Developer of software tools for debugging and testing programs to eliminate or reduce false alarms and improve operating efficiency, Soffa is an American computer scientist also noted for her research on compilers,...

Sheryl Kara Sandberg

Chief Operating Officer of Facebook beginning in 2008, Sandberg was also the youngest woman on Fortune Magazine's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" list in 2007. She had previously served as Vice...